The collector in each of us seethes with envy at Shirley Bateman's job. In a year spent browsing for books, she has loaded up her trolley with 40,000 brand-new volumes. To her falls the pleasure of opening each shiny page and inhaling the smell of freshly minted paper.

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Two big Stephen King books — big both in reputation, and in page count — have long been in development at Warner Bros. One is The Stand, which after cycling through a few different filmmakers has Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) set to write and direct.

Ever since it was announced that the sequel to director Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel would pit Superman against a grizzled, veteran Batman, the untitled film has simply been referred to as Batman vs. Superman.

Science fiction history is full of strange occurrences, and it's easy to imagine some wild alternate histories of the genre. And without some bolts from the blue, science fiction could have turned into something way less interesting. Here are 12 happy accidents that helped save science fiction.

As our technological and sociological realities change, so too do our jobs. But just what, exactly, will we be doing 15 years from now? Here are some completely unexpected jobs you've almost certainly never heard of—but likely will soon. Indeed, the landscape of careers is changing.

The best days of science fiction and fantasy books aren't in the past — they're still arriving. Every month, new books come out that pack a hell of a whallop. Just check out our list of the 23 new books that you absolutely must not miss in May.

Friday, 16 May 2014

New York City loves its libraries. People are passionate about them, they feel a connection to their libraries, and have a deep personal ownership over them. New Yorkers don't like to have their libraries messed with. They want them to have more resources and be able to do more.

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

The logline of Penny Dreadful is both familiar and risky: "What if Every Gothic Thing?" Vampires? Ghosts? Frankenstein? Check. It could easily become 19th-century sausage. But Penny Dreadful's kind of delightful, because it's more interested in the pulp than the specifics.

Friday, 9 May 2014

Bantam has changed the cover for our forthcoming concordance, THE WORLD OF ICE & FIRE, several times. You've seen a couple of the earlier mockups here and on my website. Now here's the latest and... I am told... final cover. How do you like it? WORLD OF ICE & FIRE will be out in the fall.

The first photos of the official Lego Ghostbusters Ecto-1 are now online. Back in January, the brick company announced that a fan’s design for a set recreating the iconic station wagon would be officially licensed and sold to the masses. Now we know the set will cost $49.

Monday, 5 May 2014

Dark fantasy is more popular than ever. Game of Thrones is rocking our TV sets. Tons of authors have moved to the genre. We're obsessed with bloody tales of morally gray people and supernatural forces.

This summer, you can spend every free moment reading an amazing book — that's how many incredible tales are coming in the next few months. So get ready to escape into other worlds, other timelines, and mysterious cities where magic is as ordinary as a hairpin.

Does the code “A113″ ring a bell? It probably doesn’t, but odds are good that you’ve seen several of these movies where it was used for some small detail. Pixar has used the number in many of their films, but what’s the meaning behind it? Let’s take a look:

As debate rages in Delaware over whether parents should be able to screen school reading lists for "obscene content", the latest list of the books most frequently challenged in US libraries shows it is not only classics that are being challenged.

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Tons of brand new science fiction, fantasy and horror television is coming to get you through the hot, hot months of summer. And we've got the ultimate list. Here's our complete guide to the only television you should bother with this summer. Blood and guts and dragons.

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Marcus Ferguson has three passions in his life: books, knowledge and organisation. He is committed to the ideals of gathering, managing and disseminating information for the pursuit of lifelong learning; to make information as easily accessible as possible while adhering to all relevant privacy and security concerns. Marcus is bringing his passions and career together in studying to attain a Master degree in Information Management.

Really enjoyed this book; its depiction of a low-tech. dystopian future is chillingly realistic and presented as an all too likely consequence of current human endeavors, but is also secondary to immensely interesting characters an an en...